Sept. 17, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



605 



colony I draw from. I leave about three 

 frames, and put on super; the rest of the 

 hive filled with dummies. I intend to have a 

 decrease instead of increase every fall, and 

 buy enough in the spring and transfer them. 



I used to buy a good many queens, but I 

 found I had to get rid of about seven out of 

 tetf, as they were no good except to look at. 

 One lot of i|ueens I got, the drones all had 

 redeyes; the bees 'would not gather honey 

 enough to winter them. One other lot would 

 swarm all the time, and not one drop would 

 they have to winter on; they all died before 

 lime to put them in the cellar. The best lot 

 I ever got came from Massachusetts, every 

 one wfis leather-colored and good honey- 

 gatherers, and I have bred from iheni for three 

 years. 



Two years ago I sent for a red clover queen ; 

 she came, and looked like a ''dandy.'' I 

 reared two queens from her, and have kept 

 the three colonies two seasons, and not one 

 section of honey have I got; No. 1 or No. 2 

 would have just a little chunk, about ^; of a 

 pound, and as black as New Orleans molasses. 



I have tried the " shook " plan on them, 

 only I did not use an extra hive. I suppose 

 if we had more red clover instead of alsike 

 they would have been a real nice thing to 

 have. C. M. Lincoln. 



Bennington Co., Vt., Aug. ai. 



Bees Doing PFett.y Well. 



Bees are doing pretty well here this season 

 on cotton. This is about the only plant we 

 get any surplus from in this locality. We 

 usually have plenty of horsemint, but we 

 rarely get any surplus from it. and do not de- 

 pend upon it as we do the cotton. 



A few of the people here keep bees, but 

 most of them have them in box-hives. 



F. R. Knauth. 



Williamson Co., Texas, Aug. 33. 



Dr. Gallup's Bees Good Ones. 



On page 344, Mr. H. Alley says he had never 

 heard any one else say that Dr. Gallup's 

 queens were wonderful e.xcept Dr. Gallup. I 

 am the owner of the last bees that Dr. Gallup 

 reared — 22 colonies. They did not need any 

 doubling up to get honey. It is true that 3 

 colonies did not do well, and it was all they 

 could do to take care of one super, but the 

 other I'.i colonies handled two supers all right, 

 and the 22 colonies gave an average, per col- 

 ony, of 2:i'„ pounds over the balance of ray 

 apiary of 13s colonies. These 138 colonies 

 were doubled back to that number at the be- 

 ginning of the main honey -flow from 172 colo- 

 nies. About one-third of the 172 colonies were 

 bought from Tom, Dick, and Harry. The 

 balance were my own rearing ; out of that 

 whole outfit of 13S colonies only 23 could 

 handle two supers each. All were on Lang- 

 stroth frames, and all had the same show, one 

 with another, to get there. Of course, any 

 short of stores were fed until there was a liv- 

 ing on the outside. Our foul brood inspector 

 for this County said he never saw a more 

 uniform lot of bees than the Gallup bees. It 

 is true that the Gallup bees were not all hand- 

 some yellow ones; but how about those yel- 

 low dollars they put in the pocket over the 

 other bees* They are handsome enough. 



Again, Mr. Alley says, "I have spent my 

 whole life in this branch ot apiculture, and 



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